The Chase fans say they've been 'living lie' after Darragh Ennis shares fact they 'get wrong'
dailyrecord.co.ukDarragh Ennis, one of the quiz masters on ITV's The Chase, recently had his social media followers questioning their knowledge with a "mind-blowing fact that almost everyone gets wrong".
The Dublin-born Chaser, who regularly appears alongside Mark Labbett, Anne Hegerty, Paul Sinha, Shaun Wallace and Jenny Ryan on the popular quiz show hosted by Bradley Walsh, asked his followers to picture the Buddha in their minds.Most people have a specific idea in their heads of what the Buddha looks like - but it turns out most people are picturing an entirely different person.He then revealed that the commonly pictured jolly figure is not the Buddha at all, but a Chinese Buddhist monk named Budai who lived about 1,500 years after the actual Buddha, Siddhartha Gautama.
According to Darragh, the real Buddha was "said to be very thin" due to regular fasting.Siddharta lived over 2,600 years ago, and worked as a teacher whose ideas formed the basis of Buddhism.
Darragh then shared a picture of the person most people think of, which you can see below. "If you think of this jolly, happy fella who clearly enjoys cake a bit too much, then you're wrong, that's not the Buddha at all.
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